thiennn/t-shaped-architect

For capturing essential skillset required for a T-shaped technologist

T-shaped Software Architect

A repository to enlist broader technology knowledge a T-shaped software architect is recommended to aspire for.

Definition

• A software architect's knowledge base needs to be constantly expanded in the modern environment of rapidly evolving technological dynamics.

T-shaped skills: The vertical bar on the letter T represents the depth of related skills and expertise in a single field, whereas the horizontal bar is the ability to collaborate across disciplines with experts in other areas and to apply knowledge in areas of expertise other than one's own. Wikipedia definiton of a T-shaped skills

• Applying the above concept of T-shaped skills to a software architect, you can focus on certain areas of technology (such as frontend, backend or full-stack up to certain extent) as a specialist but need to have a broader understanding other technology spectrum.

Visual Representation

Specialization Areas (The T-knowledge Vertical Bar)

• Specialization in Java/Python/Golang/JavaScript or any other programming language
• Specialization in web programming, data engineering, machine learning, or other subject areas
• You can choose from the below broader knowledge areas and make one or more as your specialization.

Knowledge Level

You can broadly classify your knowledge level into 4 different buckets:

• Expert Knowledge: Classify a technology in this area when you are hands-on for more than 3+ years and have in-depth knowledge.
• Experimental Knowledge: Classify a technology in this area when you are hands-on for more than 1+ years and have basic knowledge.
• Know-how: Classify a technology in this area when you are understand the technology and used it on need basis.
• Want-to Experiment: Classify a technology in this area when you want to aspire to learn it in near future.

Broader Knowledge Areas (The T-knowledge Horizontal Bar)

• The intention is not to enlist every technology and keeping it to 3-7 (currently pupular) in each area.
• Note that this is a community-driven decision and based on observations from the group of people. There is no statistical data available to support this.

User Experience

Programming

• Angular
• React
• NextJS
• Ionic
• Vue
• Svelte

CSS

• Bootstrap
• Foundation
• Bulma
• UIKit
• Materialize
• Skeleton
• Tailwind
• Semantic UI
• Milligram
• Pure
• Tachyons
• Primer

Microservices/APIs

Frameworks

• Spring Boot
• Helidon
• Micronaut
• Play f/w
• ASP.NET
• .NET Core
• Flask
• Falcon
• Vert.x
• ExpressJS
• Gokit

API Management

• Apigee
• MuleSoft
• Kong
• NGINX
• AWS API Gateway
• Azure Gateway
• WSO2

GraphQL

• Express
• Apollo
• Hasura

Service Mesh

• Istio
• Linkerd
• Kong Mesh

Database

RDBMS

• PostgreSQL
• Oracle
• MS SQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Neon
• Google Cloud Spanner

NOSQL

• MongoDB
• Cassandra
• Elastic
• Neo4J
• CouchDB
• DynamoDB
• CosmosDB

Graph

• Neo4J
• ArrangoDB
• Amazon Neptune

Caching

• Redis
• Hazelcast
• Oracle Coherence
• Apache Ignite
• Gigaspaces
• AWS ElasticCache
• Azure Cache
• Google Cloud Memorystore

Data Warehouse & Datalake

DWH/Datalake

• Snowflake
• Databricks
• Informatica

Data Processing & Workflow

• Apache Beam
• Apache Spark
• Apache Airflow

Messaging/Event-broker

• Kafka
• Pulsar
• RabbitMQ
• NATS
• Solace

Public Cloud

Cloud Assessment Migration Frameworks

• AWS Well-architected Framework
• Azure Well-architectured Framework
• Google Cloud Architecture Framework

AWS

• EC2
• S3
• Lambda
• EKS
• RDS
• CloudFront
• IAM

Azure

• Logic Apps
• Azure Function
• DevOps
• VM

Google Cloud

• BiqQuery
• Anthos
• GKE
• Vertex AI
• App Engine
• Spanner

Observability

Monitoring

• New Relic
• Dynatrace
• Elastic APM
• Datadog
• AppDynamics
• Splunk
• Grafana

Logging

• AWS CloudWatch
• Azure Logs
• Datadog Log Management
• Dynatrace
• ElasticSearch (ELK)
• Google Cloud Logging
• Grafana Loki
• New Relic Logs

Metrics

• Prometheus
• New Relic
• Dynatrace
• Datadog
• AppDynamics
• Splunk

Tracing

• Splunk
• SumoLogic
• Opentelemetry
• Jaeger
• Zipkin
• Grafana Tempo

DevOps

Kubernetes

• GKE
• EKS
• AKS
• Red Hat OpenShift

IaaC

• Terraform
• Pulumi
• Cloudformation

Configuration Management

• Ansible
• Puppet
• Chef

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

• Atlassian Bamboo
• CircleCI
• CloudBees CI
• Codefresh
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab
• GoCD
• Jenkins
• Jetbrains
• TeamCity
• Tekton
• Travis CI

GitOps

• ArgoCD
• Flux CD

SRE

• Google SRE Practices

Workflow

• Camunda
• AWS Step Functions
• Apache Airflow

Low-code Platform

• Outsystems
• Mendix
• ServiceNow
• Microsoft
• Pegasystems
• Appian
• Salesforce
• GeneXus
• WaveMaker
• Quickbase

Performance Engineering

Performance Tactics

Reference: Software Architecture in Practice Book

Load Testing

• Apache Jmeter
• Load Runner
• Blazemeter

Analytics

Web Analytics

• Google Analytics
• Google Tag Manager

Marketing Analytics

Security

Security Tactics/Practices

• The Open Web Application Security Project(OWASP) Top 10
• The Open Source Software Security Foundation

Reference: Software Architecture in Practice Book

SAST (Static application security testing)

• GitLab
• Whitehat Security
• Checkmarx
• HCL AppScan
• Micro Focus Fortify
• Veracode
• Synopsys
• GitHub
• Data Theorem
• Synk

DAST (Dynamic application security testing)

• Checkmarx
• Data Theorem
• GitLab
• HCL AppScan
• Invicti
• Micro Focus Fortify
• Rapid7
• Synopsys
• Veracode
• Whitehat Security

SCA (Software Composition Analysis)

• Checkmarx
• Contrast Security
• GitHub
• GitLab
• HCL AppScan
• Micro Focus Fortify
• Rapid7
• Synk
• Synopsys
• Veracode
• WhiteHat Security

Software Architecture and Design

Architectural Styles

• Layered Architecture
• Microservices Architecture
• Pipeline Architecture
• Microkernel Architecture
• Service-based Architecture
• Event-driven Architecture
• Space-based Architecture
• Service-oriented Architecture

Design Patterns

• GoF Patterns
• Domain-driven Design
• Integration (EAI) Patterns
• Cloud-design Patterns
• Cloud-native Patterns
• The Twelve-factor App

Viewpoints & Perspectives

• Complete List of Viewpoints & Perspectives

Enterprise Architecture

• TOGAF
• Zachman

Program Management

• Scaled Agile Framework
• PMP PMBOK
• Agile Manifesto
• Reactive Manifesto